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Ready, Willing, And Able (film)
''Ready, Willing, and Able'' is a 1937 American musical film directed by Ray Enright and starring Ruby Keeler, Lee Dixon, Allen Jenkins and Ross Alexander.Bubbeo p.110 It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers. Songs in the film were written by composer Richard A. Whiting and lyricist Johnny Mercer. The most successful song introduced by Wini Shaw and Ross Alexander, and reprised throughout, was " Too Marvelous for Words", which has become a pop and jazz standard. In the final production number choreographed by Bobby Connolly, Ruby Keeler and Lee Dixon tap across the keys of a giant-sized typewriter while dancers’ legs mimic typebars striking letters. The film was released to lackluster business in the aftermath of Alexander's suicide. Plot Fledgling Broadway playwright Barry Granville (Ross Alexander) and his partner, songwriter Pinky Blair (Lee Dixon), get funding for their musical, contingent on hiring London stage star Jane Clarke as the lead. Greeting Clark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Enright
Ray Enright (March 25, 1896 – April 3, 1965) was an American film director. He directed 73 films between 1927–53, many of them for Warner Bros. He oversaw comedy films like Joe E. Brown vehicles, five of the six informal pairings of Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell, and later directed a number of Western (genre), Westerns, many featuring Randolph Scott. Enright was born in Anderson, Indiana. He served in the United States Army, U.S. Army United States Army Signal Corps, Signal Corps in France during the World War I, First World War. Enright died in Hollywood, California, from a myocardial infarction, heart attack. Partial filmography As director *''Tracked by the Police'' (1927) *''Jaws of Steel'' (1927) *''The Girl from Chicago (1927 film), The Girl from Chicago'' (1927) *''Domestic Troubles'' (1928) *''Song of the West (film), Song of the West'' (1930) *''Golden Dawn (film), Golden Dawn'' (1930) *''Dancing Sweeties'' (1930) *''Scarlet Pages'' (1930) *''Play Girl (1932 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Alexander
Ross Alexander (born Alexander Ross Smith, Jr.; July 27, 1907 – January 2, 1937) was an American stage and film actor. Early years Alexander was born Alexander Ross Smith. Jr. in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Maud Adelle (nee Cohen) and Alexander Ross Smith. Alexander attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn until he and his family moved to upstate Rochester, New York. He attended high school there, but dropped out before graduating. Alexander claimed in interviews that the high-school principal recommended to his parents that the student should follow the acting profession. When he was 17, he went to New York City and studied acting at the Packard Theatrical Agency. Stage Alexander began his acting career with the Henry Jewett Players in Boston, debuting in ''Enter Madame''. By 1926, he was regarded as a promising leading man with good looks and an easy, charming style, and began appearing in more substantial roles. His Broadway theatre, Broadway credits incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milton Kibbee
Milton Kibbee (born Milne Bryan Kibbee;"Obituaries: Milne B. Kibbee" ''Ventura County Star''. April 18, 1970. p. A-3. "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K66N-1H8 : 29 June 2024), Milne Bryan Kibbee, 1917-1918. January 27, 1896 – April 17, 1970) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 360 films between 1933 and 1953. He was the brother of actor and the father of actress Lois Kibbee. Biography Kibbee was ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lillian Kemble-Cooper
Lillian Kemble-Cooper (21 March 1892 – 4 May 1977) was an English-American actress who had a successful career on Broadway and in Hollywood film. Biography Early life Lillian Kemble-Cooper was a member of the Kemble family from England. She was born as a daughter of stage actor Frank Kemble-Cooper. Her younger brother Anthony Kemble-Cooper (1904–2000) and her elder sister Violet Kemble-Cooper also worked as actors. Career Kemble-Cooper first stage appearance was as a member of the chorus in a September, 1914, production of '' The Chocolate Soldier'' at the Lyric Theatre, London. She soon moved to the United States, where she appeared in several Broadway productions. In 1919, she appeared in the original ''Hitchy-Koo''. Later in her career, she became a film actress and appeared in about 20 films, mostly in minor supporting roles. In Hollywood, Kemble-Cooper portrayed mostly aristocrats, spinsters and servants. She is perhaps best-remembered for her short appearance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Wyman
Jane Wyman ( ; born Sarah Jane Mayfield; January 5, 1917 – September 10, 2007). was an American actress. A star of both movies and television, she received an Academy Award for Best Actress, four Golden Globe Awards and nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. In 1960 she received stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for both motion pictures and television. She was the first wife of actor and future U.S. President Ronald Reagan. According to studio biographies Jane Wyman made her theatrical film debut in '' The Kid from Spain'' (1932) as an uncredited chorus girl. Wyman always maintained that she got her start in 1934 at 17 dancing in the chorus for LeRoy Prinz at Paramount Pictures. In 1936 Bryan Foy signed Wyman, at 19 years old, to her first studio contract with Warner Bros. During her tenure there, Wyman began appearing in bit roles but progressed into supporting roles, including '' My Love Came Back'' (1940), '' Footlight Serenade'' (1942), and '' Princess O'Rourke'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Addison Richards
Addison Whittaker Richards, Jr. (October 20, 1902 – March 22, 1964) was an American actor of film and television. Richards appeared in more than 300 films between 1933 and his death in 1964. Biography A native of Zanesville, Ohio, Richards was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Addison Richards. His grandfather was a mayor of Zanesville. Following his father's death, the family moved to California. Richards graduated with a bachelor of arts degree from Washington State College. Stage and screen In 1931 Addison Richards joined the Pasadena Playhouse as actor and associate director. He entered motion pictures in 1933. Warner Bros. signed him to a nonexclusive five-year contract in 1934, and he appeared steadily in that studio's feature films. His dignified, businesslike demeanor established him as a character actor, and he almost always played professional men of authority: doctors, attorneys, judges, executives, military officers, legislators, prison wardens, etc. Richards became such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh O'Connell
Hugh O'Connell (August 4, 1898 – January 19, 1943) was an American film actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ... and performed on Broadway.Fleming p. 265 Filmography References Bibliography * Fleming, E.J. Carole Landis: A Tragic Life in Hollywood''. McFarland, 2005. External links *Internet Broadway Database 1898 births 1943 deaths Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Hughes (actress)
Carol Hughes (born Catherine Mabel Hukill, January 17, 1910 – August 8, 1995) was an American actress. She is best remembered for her leading roles opposite Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, and for her role as Dale Arden in ''Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe'' (1940). Biography Hughes was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Charles, an upholsterer, and Mable Hukill (née Stift). Both of her parents were born in Chicago; her mother's grandparents were from Germany. She was raised in a rented house at 2122 Pearl Court in Chicago along with a cousin, Pearl Hukill. As a teenager, she was drawn to acting and participated in school plays. At the age of 14, she began acting and dancing in short musical comedies with an Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Oshkosh stock company. The following year, she appeared as Katie Conway in the Conway Sisters team, having learned to sing and play piano. In the late 1920s, she teamed with Frank Faylen to form the comedy dancing and singing team of Faylen and Hughes in whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Fazenda
Louise Fazenda (June 17, 1895 – April 17, 1962) was an American film actress, appearing chiefly in silent comedy films. Early life Fazenda was born in her maternal grandparents' house in Lafayette, Indiana, the daughter of merchandise broker Joseph A. Fazenda, who was born in Mexico, and Nelda T. Schilling Fazenda, a Chicago native. She was of Portuguese, French, and Italian descent on her father's side and of German descent on her mother's. The Fazenda family moved to California, where Joseph Fazenda opened a grocery store. Louise attended Los Angeles High School and St. Mary's Convent, and one of her jobs after school was delivering groceries for the family business by a horse-drawn wagon. Career She made her first film in 1913. She gained experience with bit parts. She was best known as a character actor in silent films, playing roles such as a fussy spinster and a blacksmith. She briefly left films from 1921 to 1922 to perform vaudeville.Death takes Louise Faze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Connolly
William Harold "Bobby" Connolly (July 4, 1897 – February 29, 1944) was an American choreographer and director, first for Broadway musicals and then for films. Connolly was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Dance Direction, for his work on the films ''Go Into Your Dance'' (1935) and '' Broadway Hostess'' (1935) (a single nomination for work on two films), '' Cain and Mabel'' (1936), and '' Ready, Willing and Able'' (1937). Other film credits included dance director for '' Flirtation Walk'' (1934), '' The Patient in Room 18'' (1938), ''The Wizard of Oz'' (1939) and '' For Me and My Gal'' (1942). His Broadway choreography credits included '' The Desert Song'' (1926), '' Good News'' (1927), ''Funny Face'' (1927), ''The New Moon'' (1928), '' Follow Thru'' (1929), '' Show Girl'' (1929), '' Flying High'' (1930), ''Ziegfeld Follies The ''Ziegfeld Follies'' were a series of elaborate theatrical revue productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 to 1931, with re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wini Shaw
Wini Shaw (c. 1907 – May 2, 1982), sometimes credited as Winifred Shaw, was a 20th century American actress, dancer and singer. Early life She was born as Winifred Lei Momi in about 1907 in San Francisco, the youngest of 13 children of Hawaiian descent. Some sources suggest she was born in 1910, while the Social Security Death Index under her married name Wini O'Malley suggests she was born in 1907. Career Shaw began her entertainment career as a child in her parents' vaudeville act and later appeared in a number of Warner Brothers musical films in the 1930s. She is best remembered for introducing the song "Lullaby of Broadway (song), Lullaby of Broadway" in the musical film ''Gold Diggers of 1935'' (1935). Shaw's only recording, with Dick Jurgens and His Orchestra, was "Lullaby of Broadway" and "I'm Goin' Shoppin' with You". Both songs were from the film, and the recording was made on February 28, 1935. She also sang "The Lady in Red (Allie Wrubel song), The Lady in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
